Environmental Sustainability Manager - UK, NL, Jordan, or Kenya

Location: UK, Netherlands, Kenya, or Jordan

Salary:  range starting at £53,360 for UK and  63,040 euros for NL -  Offer will be commensurate on local benchmark and p rofessional  experience

Closing date: Please submit application before August 14th 

Candidates must have the independent right to work in the future base location at the time of appointment. 

About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

The Department The Strategy Realization Unit (SRU) ensures that Mercy Corps has the strategies and vision that will enable it to be a world-class, cutting-edge humanitarian and development organization creating transformational change in the world. The Strategy Realization Unit’s goal is to drive forward the agency’s 10-year strategy - Pathway to Possibility - providing a unifying vision while also enabling teams to be adaptive. The underlying intention is to create clarity and focus to enhance decision-making at all levels and locations of the organization. The Chief Climate Officer (CCO) sits within the SRU and is responsible for leading the Climate Smart Commitment as part of the Pathway to Possibility strategy.  The CCO works with leadership across the organization, including with Regional Directors, Country Directors, HLR and TSU senior leaders, HQ Function Leads, Department Heads, and others to advance the organization-wide push on climate change.

The Position
The Environmental Sustainability Manager sits within Mercy Corps global support services and is tasked with driving organizational-wide efforts at improving the environmental sustainability of our operations. They will work with senior HQ, regional and in- country leaders to hone strategies, implement plans and develop tools for related initiatives. The position is responsible for designing and leading change management processes and related activities towards our sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) with HQ, regional and in-country teams. In collaboration with Operations, Finance and Program departments across the agency, the Environmental Sustainability Manager will consolidate progress to date on tracking and reporting our global carbon footprint, develop and work with global and country teams to implement strategies for reducing this footprint over time, support the roll-out of country- leveo Green Teams, and develop a more comprehensive vision for environmental sustainability.  

Essential Responsibilities

STRATEGY AND PLANNING

• Scope and gather current best practices already existing around sustainability and change management processes to smooth the up taking among Mercy Corps colleagues in different departments.
• Work with the senior leadership across global support teams to further develop strategies and work plans related to sustainability goals.
• Engage in-country leaders for input into strategies and build support for executing key components of the work plans.
• Refine measurement frameworks and key performance indicators as needed and produce regular reports on progress.

KEY INITIATIVES

• Work with the CCO and relevant teams to design and implement specific projects and initiatives aimed at reducing our carbon footprint, including office energy transition initiatives and global travel emissions reductions initiatives.
• Track progress of key initiatives and report as part of the Climate-Smart Commitment reporting cycle

DATA MANAGEMENT, REPORTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

• Support and strengthen the regular carbon accounting, data quality assurance, and reporting processes and protocols.
• Work with communications teams for external communication plans as needed .

C OMMUNITY AND CAPACITY BUILDING

• Nurture, track and support ‘Green Teams’ across the globe seeking to reduce the environmental footprint of our offices.
• Build connections across office teams to share lessons and build a community of practice focused on our sustainability and safeguarding efforts.
• Develop or identify training products or processes to help build skills across the Mercy Corps global teams.
• Help onboard operations managers across the globe to the carbon accounting processes.

Supervisory Responsibility
Supervises one or more program officer level positions that engage in specific elements of the sustainability work.

Accountability
Reports Directly To: Chief Climate Officer
Works Directly With: Global TSU, Finance, Travel, Compliance and Program Quality Teams, plus full network of country teams.

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills  

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• Minimum 5 years’ experience working on corporate sustainability, energy transition, climate risk management, or similar issues - of which at least 3 years on change management in multicultural contexts and across departments.
• Experience in project or program management and demonstrated ability to oversee multi-stakeholder engagement processes.
• Experience with the use of Microsoft Power BI or similar reporting and dashboard development tools is a plus.
• Experience working in international organizations is preferred.
• Fluency in English is essential, other language skills preferred especially French or Arabic.

Success Factors  
Flexibility, creativity, and well-honed team building and communication skills are all essential in this role. The successful candidate will be able to take ownership of these work streams, develop a clear plan of action for the short and medium term, and then build collaborative relationships with key partners and stakeholders in order to advance these actions.  S/he will be a change manager at heart, able to identify opportunities to move quickly where they exist while working on more gradual progress in other areas. Most of all, S/he will be able to build momentum and harness the excitement that exists across the organization to improve Mercy Corps’ environmental performance and to represent our progress externally to help push the sector as a whole.

Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions
The position is based in any of Mercy Corps offices, and it requires up to 30% travel to support country programs, which may include travel to insecure locations where freedom of movement is limited and areas where amenities are limited. When traveling, Mercy Corps will provide support as per agency’s policies.

Ongoing Learning
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact. We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics
Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regardin g prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the   Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme . We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to   Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis. As a safeguarding measure, Mercy Corps screens all potential US-Based employees. This is done following the conclusion of recruitment and prior to assuming full employment. Our screening process is designed to be transparent and completed in partnership with new Team Members. You will have the opportunity to disclose any prior convictions at the conclusion of the recruitment process before the check is initiated. We ask that you do not disclose any prior convictions in your application materials or during the recruitment process.